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Future of British boxing cast in doubt after Derek Mapp is voted off board

Ashling O’Connor

May 29 2013, 1:01am, The Times

The funding that helped Nicola Adams, left, to win a gold medal and the Britain boxing team to their best Games has been thrown into doubt by the ousting of Mapp, the BABA chairmanMarc Aspland/NOPP

British boxing is in disarray with future funding for the Olympic team in doubt after its chairman was ousted in a boardroom coup yesterday. Derek Mapp, who has run the British Amateur Boxing Association (BABA) since August 2008, was voted out under a no-confidence motion brought by Amateur Boxing Scotland at an extraordinary meeting.

Mapp’s removal — after the most successful Olympics in British boxing history — has far-reaching consequences, including an immediate review of the £14 million of public money provided by UK Sport before the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

UK Sport had already put boxing on a warning, with just the first year of funding guaranteed, amid concerns about infighting between the home nations. Liz Nicholl, its chief executive, said that…